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Department
of English
Departmental Research Guide
This research guide relays some basic information on library
and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this
department, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites
on the World Wide Web.
1.
LC Call Nos. - - - 2.
Finding Articles - - - 3.
Reference Collection - - - 4.
English Faculty - - - 5.
Professional Societies - - - 6.
Web Sites
1.
To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library
of Congress Subject Divisions)
Books
on subjects associated with this field are shelved under
the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT
to search for specific items in the collection, or more
narrowly-defined subjects.
P-PA
(Philology, Linguistics, Classical Philology, Classical Linguistics)
------- PB-PH (Modern European Languages) -------
PE Dictionaries (of all kinds, including the OED,
Thesauri, Slang...) ------- PF (German Dictionaries)
------- PL (African Writers) ------- PN
(Literature: General, Quotations, etc.) ------- PQ
(French, Italian, Spanish, Mexican, Latin American, &
Portuguese Literatures) ------- PR (English Literature)
------- PS (American Literature) ------- PT
(German Literature) ------- PZ (Juvenile Belles Lettres)
2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles
(using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)
- MLA
(Modern Language Association): A WWW-based database
available through FirstSearch which exhaustively
indexes all literature of the field of Literature, Languages,
Linguistics, and Folklore.
- ArticleFirst:
This all-subject FirstSearch-based database indexes
almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including
some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries
in hardcopy.
Full-Text
Databases:
- Academic
Search Premier
and MasterFILE Premier:
These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part
of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and abstracting
of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries receives in
hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles in full-text.
Both databases have a somewhat limited range concerning
topics of literary criticism, but they do have some full-text
journals in the area of literature which are scholarly and
useful for the undergraduate researcher.
Special
resource: TDNet
Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries'
electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as
some indexes and databases containing full-text articles;
includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
3. Monographic and Other Materials
(in the Helm Library, unless specially noted)
The
following are recommended for general reference use:
Encyclopedia
of Contemporary Literary Theory (PN81 .E43) ------- Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations (PN6080 .O95) ------- Columbia
Grainger Index to Poetry (Index Table XI) ------- Dictionary
of Literary Biography (Index Table III) ------- Contemporary
Authors (Index Table IV) ------- Reader's Guide to
Women's Studies (Z7961 .R43 1998) ------- Encyclopedia
of Feminist Literary Theory (PN98 .W64 E53 1997) -------
Southern Writers (PS261 .S59) ------- Nineteenth
Century Literary Criticism (PN761 .N5) ------- Contemporary
Literary Criticism (PN771 .C59) ------- Twentieth
Century Literary Criticism (PN771 .T85x) ------- Southern
Writers (PS261 .S59) ------- Speech Index (Index
Table XI) ------- Plot Locator (Index Table XI) -------
Short Story Index (Index Table XI) ------- Play
Index (Index Table XI) ------- Book Review Index
(Index Table XII) ------- Book Review Digest (Index
Table XII) ------- Biography and Genealogy Master Index
(Index Table I) ------- works (printed and manuscript) in
the Kentucky Building by and about Kentucky authors (including
Janice Holt Giles, Alice Hegan Rice, Jesse Stuart and Robert
Penn Warren)
For
citing:
MLA
Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (LB2369 .G53
1999; in Ready Ref.); Oxford English Dictionary (PE1625
.O87)
Information
on places to send creative writing, book manuscripts, poetry:
Literary
Market Place (PN161 .L51x; in Ready Ref.); Writer's
Market (PN161 .W83)
4. English Faculty
Department
of English Faculty & Staff: http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/AHSS/English/faculty.html
5. Related Professional Societies
(for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)
6. Recommended Web Sites
Text
archives:
Individual
(and schools of) Authors (alphabetically arranged):
Individual
Literary Works (alphabetically arranged):
Miscellaneous
Subjects (alphabetically arranged):
University
Libraries Liaison: Elisabeth
Knight (x6117 / elisabeth.knight@wku.edu)
last updated 3/02/2007
page maintained by Charles H. Smith
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